The show is pretty dark at times, but they avoid the blood and gore and somehow managed to make a comedy about death that works. Once I got started I couldn't stop watching. IMO, it is the best show since my other favorite, Northern Exposure.

I loved the scene in the first or second regular episode when Roxy gets mad, pulls the guy's soul out of his body, and then puts it back. Bad, bad reeper.

I like the show, but man they go through a lot of contortions to get a working reaper bureaucracy...

You claim the soul before their ugly death befalls them to spare them the pain.
If you don't claim the soul, they spend eternity mauled by a bear.
You can alter events, accidentally averting their death.
If you don't let them die, their soul rots.
You don't know exactly who will die, only a partial name, location and time.

This sets up a perfect scenario for claiming the wrong person.

So why would they enact a policy of claiming souls first??

And if that is merely to spare them pain, then why did the nurse Yeardley Smith (from the Natural Death Division) claim the old man's life boefre he dief of natural causes??

I've been thinking of writing up a Rules List and Logic Chart for Reaping.

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I loved the first season as it seemed to have an interesting idea around the plot and the depressing nature of the content was buffered with a little comedy. The second season didn't seem to add anything really to the story I thought and got a little predictable and almost annoying.